This study aimed to determine the opinions of science teacher candidates about their experiences in process by examining effect using Instagram online learning environments on sense community. The involved 41 candidates, 21 experimental group and 20 control group. Convergent parallel design, one mixed-method designs that quantitative qualitative research methods, was used study. "Community Feel...

Digital games embedded in social network sites are one of the driving forces behind the expansion of digital gamer populations. Previous studies have observed different usage patterns between users in different ethnic groups and countries, suggesting that culture orientations may affect how people play and interact through social network games. This study examined how people’s culture orientati...

Social Network Service (SNS) is popular in Thailand now [25]. Many people have at least one account with Facebook, Twitter or others. People use social network for many reasons such as finding old friends, advertisement. This means that social network is used for both personal and business purposes. Even many people in Thailand use social network services, some of them still don’t use any socia...

We examine the role of network externalities on the use of blogs in an organization. Prior research has considered social influences such as peer pressure, but there is little prior work on how the extent of others’ actual usage can influence an individual’s use of technology. We also examine how technology usage is influenced by positive feedback from others. Finally, we look at how the relati...

We study the dual roles of the stability of an individual’s social network and social contagion on individual behavior in the mobile Internet setting. We use a panel dataset containing all mobile records for a sample of 3G mobile subscribers. Our data includes information about their frequency of mobile Internet usage, and their communication patterns across voice calls and messages, which allo...

the aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of information and communication technology on the structure of social networks. three major questions have been considered. first, how far does the combination of adolescent social links tend to be heterogeneous and how much is this change related to social and technological factors? second, does this alternation affect the power of adolescen...

Retaining users and facilitating continuance usage are crucial to the success of mobile social network services (SNS). This research examines the continuance usage of mobile SNS in China by integrating both the perspectives of social influence and privacy concern. Social influence includes three processes: compliance, identification and internalization, which are respectively represented by sub...